investment in the maintenance of our vehicles in fixing them and keeping them in good shape and rehabilitating them and expanding that fleet needs to be muni's top priority. we recently received $6.7 million in transit performance initiative funding from the regional metropolitan transportation commission, and that money is required to be used either to increase rider ship -- increase rider ship and to improve productivity of muni's system. this money should be used to maintain these vehicles to fix the vehicles that are broken down, to rehabilitate the vehicles that need rehabilitation, and to expand the size of muni's fleet, all with the goal of being -- having a reliable muni system for the people of san francisco. so that people don't have to crowd on the platforms, don't have to crowd into these vehicles and can get where

they're going in a timely way. the best way -- the most effective way by far to increase rider ship on muni is to have a reliable system so that people have confidence that muni will serve their needs. * the mta, senior management and board of directors will soon be deciding how to spend this tpi money, the $6.7 million, that can be used to maintain and improve the reliability of the muni system. in my view, this is a test of muni management. it is a test about how serious this agency is about reversing the decades of severe under investment and the reliability of the system. i am also today on the bright side, introducing a resolution to approve the purchase by muni of 17 new 40-foot hybrid diesel buses. we recently approved the

purchase of 45 new buses and new funding has arrived and we're able to purchase even more. so, it's great that the agency is able to move forward and increasing the number of buses that we have on our streets, and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you. why don't we go now to general public comment. >> the next item on the agenda is the opportunity for the public to address the board for up to two minutes, generally on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including those items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. please note that public comment is not allowed on those items which have already been considered by a board committee. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. and if a member of the public would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the

meeting. >> thank you. let's hear from the first speaker. [speaker not understood], i live in examiner, for yesterday and i live in other for today. i wish you give our supervisor. as you see, i [speaker not understood] for that [speaker not understood]. i disagree for the damage, some crazy people make it in my city. [speaker not understood].

[speaker not understood]. ladies and gentlemen, before i come in here, i visit our mayor's office and he talk about the [speaker not understood] he make it tomorrow, about how we can make it good for our giants. [speaker not understood] the giants in the newspaper, which i bring some of them [speaker not understood], we get it and that is our giants. as you know, many more people coming tomorrow to visit us and to support us and we would like to be with you and we would like to be with every one of you. ladies and gentlemen, as you

see, newspaper from china, from different country, they talk about giants. i am one of the giants' supporter, as you know, and we would like to see our [speaker not understood], i would like to see [speaker not understood] with us tomorrow. if you like giants or not giants, it's [speaker not understood] for you tomorrow to be with me. god bless all of you and congratulations to our team. in three years we bring it the champion two times. it is very nice action for all of you guys. and thank you for your support, all of you. i wish you have time to read the newspaper i give you and i hope to see many of you tomorrow. god bless all of you. and god bless our hero team [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you. i think it's safe to say we'll all be celebrating tomorrow.

next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. stop the [speaker not understood] for the public library. don't give money to the friends of the library. don't accept money from the friends of the library. privatization of our society not only destroys the public's assets, it destroys social values and the sense of shared community. as you know, the friends of the library made a commitment they would raise $16 million for furniture, fixtures and equipment for the branch libraries. at that time that was supposed to be 15.1% of the total bond expenditure. the friends of the library raised money with the cooperation of the library based on that premise. we now have figures from the department of public works which show that the funds have given just 3.6 million to the branch library project. the details show that of that same 8.6 million, 38.8% is for computers, 21.1% is for

self-check machines, and only 26-1/2% or 96 3,000 is for the alleged furnitures and equipment. it was the result of a fund-raising campaign by the friends of the library that raised over $40 million and had expenditures of 48.1 million. this is a situation in which the supervisors should be concerned for the citizens who gave money to these private fund-raisers on false pretenses independent of your concern for the effect on a public institution. [speaker not understood] without any agreement with the city of san francisco rather than make financial disclosures to this board's finance committee. now even the library administration contends that the friends of the library will not supply them with information. there is no accountability because it is the private corporate fund-raising and the private corporate interests that matter. the [speaker not understood] of society flow to the private

interest and the lies always cost more than the money. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i have paulette brown here who is going to help me show some pictures, use the overhead. i'm here to advise you on a [speaker not understood] i'm having with the da's office. i'd like to read a part of a letter i wrote to da gascone and have not received a response. this is in regard to may sanchez, my mother, case no. 11 0 724 99. [speaker not understood] and i'm writing to you because of the frustration and stress that my family is enduring through the bitter process of justice delayed and justice denied. you may remember me from my own [speaker not understood] killed in a drive-by shooting on january 7 of 2007 and still an unsolved murder case with a reward of $250,000. the reason why i am writing to

you today is because my mother mary sanchez was brutally assaulted on 9/11 of 2011 at a club bar -- club/bar named [speaker not understood] in the mission district. the person that assaulted her was a marine named juan omego, a.k.a. chino, this was a party for he and his sister. chino and his sister [speaker not understood] were with familiar friends and acquaintances of my mother mary. without getting into further details of the case, supervisors, our family is already distraught of the challenge getting justice after. the attorney has repeatedly requested delay after delay after delay and the d.a.'s office seems to not care at all. what is your office waiting for? are you waiting for my mother to die? this stress of delay justice is killing us all. please meet with us in person so we can discuss our case so

that was my letter to the d.a.'s office. other points are police and some of them are doing poor investigations. our d.a.'s office chooses and picks the casies they want to prosecute so the victims are left [speaker not understood] and take care [inaudible]. president chiu, i have a problem with my glass. last week and the week before last when i put this glass up you can read it here. but when i put it on the computer, you can't read it. can i take down the glare? >> sfgtv, if you can fix the projector. i think you can see it now. you can see it and i can see it but on the computer it's too glaring. can i turn down the light? >> why don't you continue. we can see it. for the benefit of those who will be watching on the net. okay.

i'd like to talk about what genesis says here in the 41st chapter. and self said to pharaoh, the dream is one. god showed pharaoh what he is about to do. 7 good years and the 7 good ears are 7 years. the dream is one. verse 32 it says and for the dream was doubled to pharaoh twice. it is because the thing is established by god and god will shortly bring it to pass. now, it's interesting this has application believe it or not to our day. that's why i wanted to be sure those watching on the net, they understand this graphic. it's a very simple graph. it is one, a picture is worth a thousand words. i believe in our day god has doubled not a dream, but a scripture, you might say since we are in the last days and the prophecies are close to sealed. to the last day we can check our map and see if our interpretation of the scripture in regards to us actually being

in the time of the end is correct. now, there's two ways to do this. it's doubled. the first way to do this, to determine that we're in the last days is to take the 560 years from the destruction of the temple to jesus christ, multiplying it by 3-1/2, the figure given in the book of revelation to the second coming and add the first 560. that would give us 2,5 20 years. the second way that we can verify our math is found in the mysterious [bell]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. [speaker not understood] seventh century china. then introduced into europe in 13th century by trade with china.

so, where is san francisco public library? capital currency is means of labor exchange for production of basic needs. strict relation to right to life, control ranks of class, give financial cost its prime. this dictated exchange knows antagonism and revolutions, but not its end. education, schooltion, work ethic for basic needs, childbirth humanity to death. a financial cost that as of 2012 international world order is based upon financial cost. capital currency financial cost, u.n. basic needs exposing [speaker not understood] obliged by law for humanity to promote free speech propagation, [speaker not understood] for human and environmental marketing ownership and production,

socialist capitalism, [speaker not understood], fascism. two centuries, republican democratic bodies, ability to gain, plan, life, death, whisper, come together, constitutional democracy. but aged emotional symphonic [speaker not understood], pointing had i finger to an introduction to a [speaker not understood] in logic. * his finger good afternoon. good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. ♪ you know that i would be untrue you know that i would be a city liar if i was to say to you this

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burning san franciscans in the street, that's what's been happening in this city since september 2001 when this board of supervisors came out with a resolution to close the last public horse sporting facility in san francisco and reopen it in the quickest, most efficient manner possible. and here we are 11 years later, nothing has happened. but yet the supervisors have all these little pet projects that they somehow think is going to help the city and county of san francisco. what a joke. i've been going around this city for the past 10 years asking everybody, what is going on down there at the golden gate park stables?

and the board of supervisors lack of motivation and input to get them reopened. they all came back and said, there's only one solution. you need to go to the supervisors and you need to make a resolution asking every one of those supervisors to hold hands, walk on the golden gate bridge, and jump off. that is the only thing that the san francisco board of supervisors could ever do to help this city. take a running, flying jump. thank you. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter war field, library user association on october 4. two out of three sides of the

bernal heights branch library mural were painted out as i've already reported previously. what we have heard particularly about the process by which the mural was [speaker not understood] is that it is presumably an exemplary process and it's quite a disappointment that a progressive anomaly is considered a reliably progressive supervisor would have been the one along with the mayor to kickoff that process. as we've already mentioned, that process was highly undemocratic, including multiple violations of the sunshine ordinance, which we got six orders of determination on from the sunshine ordinance task force, the city's official sunshine watchdog. that group did not follow basic requirements that would normally be required by sunshine, which we've also talked about.

these included a lack of publicly announced meetings, no agendas, no minutes, no recorded votes. this so-called statement of consensus which was a one documented fiscal created, nobody, including the library and supervisor campos were able to provide a copy with [speaker not understood] and not even one signature on any copy anywhere. with respect to conflict of interest within that process, there was a mediator appointed by the supervisor who then appointed all of the members, including a friend who was opposed to the preservation of the mural, the so-called compromise either way you cut it involves getting rid of everything. a member of the body who decided to say to the mural is not having the contract for replacement. >> thank you very much. next speaker.

good afternoon, supervisors. my name is charlotte long. as one of many women that received residencies, a response allowing the sun to shine on the powers and practices of candidates running for appointed and elected offices, i'm a member of local 16 and have and am facing unrealistic roadblocks unable to seek employment in my field due to discriminatory blackmail against me and others. as of this moment i have open case at the eeoc against local 16. ms. victoria lewis and i went to the human rights commission and met with theresa sparks. sparks told us this was a touchy situation due to political connections involved. she then requested that we meet with tom willis which we did. we were told this is too far up the political ladder. he told us that he used to work for mayor lee before he became mayor with mayor gavin newsome. [speaker not understood] to this day i have yet to receive a response.

and here is the letter. i don't know if you can see it or not. it's dated february 17, 2011. to mr. willis. the san francisco film office [speaker not understood] the film office has denied me upcoming and ongoing productionses in local 16's jurisdiction. many past executive directors of the [speaker not understood] have known about the situation and refuse to assist others with information on production. working as -- one of the commissioners [inaudible] that work on the major shows in town working as a production manager is impossible to get any information and get through to production to find out who is hiring in my field. president of the supervisor chiu's office is aware of the situation. [speaker not understood] while we were waiting for an ethics commission hearing. proceeded to inquire about ethics [speaker not understood]. we showed him the 2008 lmc

report, which i have right here, that shows that local 16 paid out [speaker not understood] for sandy reid through matt gonzalez who was representing her as -- >> thank you very much. next speaker. victoria lewis, [speaker not understood]. 12 years ago -- >> please speak directly into the mic. 12 years ago, [speaker not understood] appeared before the human rights commission. the exact date was thursday, march 2nd, and here's the copy of the agenda. [speaker not understood] the human rights commission to investigate discriminatory hiring practices and retaliation by local 16 business manager [speaker not understood]. the commissioner [speaker not understood] -- >> excuse me, ma'am. there is a rule in the board

chamber that public comment is not used to discuss candidates or ballot initiatives. so, i would ask you to refrain from referring to mention of any candidates. okay. [speaker not understood]. >> you can discuss the union but not any candidates. [speaker not understood] for speaking out against local 16. he spoke on the record about making things right. 20 years later no one has had the courage to make this right. we are still blacklisted by this union and not been able to work. as members of local 16 we have the [speaker not understood]. we were told they didn't have to work because their husbands could take care of us. they whispered [speaker not understood] and we haven't. [speaker not understood] local 16, the eeoc and nrb, women and people of color who could not join the union and retaliated against if they said [speaker not understood]. case was reese endly settled

for [speaker not understood]. * recently [speaker not understood] never investigate these charges. only one journalist of countless newspapers we contacted for help has ever dared tackle this story. she was fired before her story went to press. it is not known if her report will be published or not. we are asking that whatever you can to stop the [speaker not understood] and stop [speaker not understood]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon. john [speaker not understood] from san francisco. this is about human behavior. [speaker not understood] changed the time, but our basic instincts did not. our place i can [speaker not understood] syndromes for getting an adrenaline high, watching a batman movie at midnight with plenty of violence.

we don't need any training, but just do r your thing. and it says, ask hollywood. if you can get people to plunder in their basic pledge of syndrome instincts we can leave the important decisions to our chosen leaders. i am not [speaker not understood], but let's think of something else once in a while. [speaker not understood] probing far from undermining our spiritual convictions [speaker not understood]. at the root of the controversy is the question of what human beings are. how are we to [speaker not understood] that is true to our spirit, nature and intellect. i use the word intellect [speaker not understood]. to be able to tell one thing from another is the power to

make distinctions to sort things through. [speaker not understood] that concerns me the most. the battle for our minds [speaker not understood]. we should be taught not what to think, but how to think. i should practice some more. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. we the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish

justice and share domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to prosperity to ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america. i have two boys living in kenya and these word have provided some inspiration for the following. then the lord said to moses, rise early in the morning and go in before pharaoh and say to him, thus says the lord god of the hebrews, let my people go that they may serve me. for at this time i will send all my plagues to your very heart and your servants and on your people that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. now, if i had stretched out my hand and struck you and your

people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth. but indeed for this purpose i have raised you up that i may show you my power in you and that my name may be declared in all the earth. as yet you exalt yourself against my people in that you will not let them go. behold tomorrow about this time i will cause very heavy hail to rain down such as not has been seen in egypt since its founding until now. therefore, send now and gather your livestock and all that you have for the hail shall come down on it. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you very much. next speaker.